Heterosexual white dudes no longer get to decide what’s funny, and this bothers MRAs. That is what I claimed.

So they don’t have all the power anymore? Well then I guess they should no longer be acceptable targets for ridicule, either?

KathleenB – A house is private. This is more like walking into a public space where a clique of friends are having a smug intellectual masturbation session, you disagree with them and they all try to shout you down, failing that they tell you to go away. If you just want another echo chamber, why not create a private forum? There you can agree with each other all day in peace and air out all your lofty opinions without fear of having them questioned or challenged. I won’t try to get in, I promise.

“Don’t try to alter the range of humour simply because it doesn’t suit you.”

I’m ok then! I want to frown instead of laugh at rape jokes, and make other’s feel bad about telling rape jokes, in an attempt to in some small way, make rape less acceptable in our culture. So it’s not just to suit me – phew!*

Johnny: It was an example, nitwit. That’s why it was phrased in the hypothetical. What the hell do you expect on a blog whose tagline involves mocking misogyny? Cake and sympathy when you get all butthurt because the womyns don’t respect your manly right to do whatever the fuck you want?

Not my blog, not my rules, but all I’m saying is that coming into a feminist space and bitching about how you can’t make rape jokes isn’t going to get you named Commentor of the Year.

OK, so you’re like that homeless guy who was standing on the street outside the cafe where I was eating on Wednesday and yelling “Fucking Jews! Go back to Israel!” when the owner tried to make him leave.

But forget metaphors. You show up here and act like you have the right to be heard and responded to in a way that satisfies you, while simultaneously ignoring anyone you decide you don’t like. You don’t. You can post here if you like and we can call you a jackoff if we like. In fact, I think I’ll do so now. You’re a jackoff.

Can you show me one instance where I initiated something like that, as opposed to responding in kind to one of you?

FIrst if feminist had no humor then man boobz would not exist. Obviously mra’s have no sense of humor because the vast amount of moderate mra’s that come to this site to post can’t make fun of their extremist compatriots.

A couple of days ago I watched for five minutes a show called my strange addiction. This weeks addiction was a woman who was addicted to her late husbands ashes, she took them everywhere with her. I turned if off after she stated she also eats them and is afraid she will run out (and they showed her doing it…ick).

So I’m at work with two colleagues. I say, “I just saw the worst thing I’ve ever seen on t.v” and then remembered that one of them had just lost their spouse. Should I have continued to tell him what I had seen on t.v or change the subject?

Apparently Johnny b is unaware that most television writers are white men.

And what happened to knowing your audience? Who would most of Chis Rock’s auidence be?

Notice the naming of BET, Lifetime, and Oxygen, Are there not many other channels and shows that cater to the white male demographic? I suppose discrimination is white men not being portrayed in the best light all the damn time and anything that might be of interest to someone that’s not a white male existing.

Okay, these feminist jokes are killing me*. The only one I already knew was the “lightbulb/that’s not funny!” one but I’m adding these to my repertoire asap. 😀

As for rape jokes, yeah, sometimes I think they are funny too. Ditto dead baby jokes, race jokes, sexist jokes, whatever. But like a million people have said already, it’s all about context and audience and the target of the humor — not to mention who’s telling the joke. So while my college friends (who I’ve known for ages) and I might giggle over some very inappropriate stuff, I wouldn’t expect an equally cheerful reaction from the public at large because the entire public and I are not total besties. Fooling yourself about that is just dumb as hell.

*as a feminist with alive-privilege I really shouldn’t use this metaphor, though. Sorry, zombie! D:

So I’m at work with two colleagues. I say, “I just saw the worst thing I’ve ever seen on t.v” and then remembered that one of them had just lost their spouse. Should I have continued to tell him what I had seen on t.v or change the subject?

Should’ve gone for it, and followed that shit up with a joke about how heaven doesn’t really exist and everyone dies alone. Anything less would be betraying the principles of free speech.

Funny rape joke: the Onion fake news story about how corporate polluters (who are often described as “raping the environment in non-fake news stories) claimed that the environment was totally asking for it, with its lush green valleys and flowing, clear streams.

Not-funny rape joke: when Will Ferrell and a couple of other “comedians” in a “Funny or Die” skit (uh-oh, good thing the website’s title isn’t literal) decided to try to mock over-zealous environmentalists by playing the environmentalists as violent thugs. They see a young woman toss aside a drink can on the side of the road, run over to her, lecture her about littering, then drag her behind a dumpster and rape her. They don’t show the rape, but it’s clearly implied. Not funny.

Can anyone tell me the crucial difference between these two humorous devices?

“Rutee – I don’t know if you’re an angsty teenager who thinks it’s ‘cool’ to swear all the time, or just a headcase with Tourette’s syndrome, but I won’t waste my time on somebody who can’t even be bothered to employ basic civility. Consider yourself permanently ignored.”
I’m someone who doesn’t contain her anger at stupid people. You’re defending rape jokes; what the hell makes you think you’re civil? Consider yourself a troll.

“So they don’t have all the power anymore? Well then I guess they should no longer be acceptable targets for ridicule, either?”
Missed this; you’re a twit, aren’t you?

Have you ever listened to a Chris Rock routine? He had an amazing one that clearly lays out the difference between this shit, actually. Able white cis hetero dudes of status still hold the amazingly disproportionate amount of power; they advantage those like them subconsciously and consciously, as can be witnessed by literally dozens of studies. It leaks into societal narratives, and is generally internalized by *everyone*, not just the dudes with power.

Onto the Chris Rock Routine;t he difference between black people, who generally have nothing, mocking white people, who hold the majority of the power, is that at the end of the day, that white dude still has a shot at getting a loan. He has a better chance, all else being equal, of being hired over a black dude, a woman, etc. White people already have this shit; if they mock black dudes, that’s just being mean. It might be funny to them, but it’s a bully’s humor, not a jester’s.

Rutee – I don’t know if you’re an angsty teenager who thinks it’s ‘cool’ to swear all the time, or just a headcase with Tourette’s syndrome, but I won’t waste my time on somebody who can’t even be bothered to employ basic civility. Consider yourself permanently ignored.

Jeezus keerhist, Rutee, you need to fucking calm the fuck down and stop being such a fucking goddamn foul-mouthed sumbitch! The hell kinda fucking angsty shitty teenage headcase can’t be a little more fucking civil on the internet fucking crap shit balls THE GODDAMN BATMAN!

…I may have lost the train of my critique somewhere in there. Carry on.

Johhny B: Funny… the OP said, You may not find it funny, but trying to deprive anyone who may find it funny is a dick move and you are a self-righteous asshole

That’s telling people who don’t like the joke (for whatever reason) that they need to just shut the fuck up and let the, “funny” happen.

This is in a forum that’s got it’s jock-straps in a twist because Sharon Osborne made a joke they not only found unfunny, but people they disapprove are alleged to have laughed at it.

When it gets brought up, the feminists (accused of being all over that shit) say, “That some fucked up shit.”

Which is promptly ignored, and the self-same feminsts are told, to their face, that they 1: approve, and 2: never said anything to the contrary.

But Rape Jokes, those are special. Can’t be so humorless as to say, “That joke offended me, maybe it would be nice if people didn’t make fun of rape.”

Nope, it’s not like castration, which happens so often, and to real people, unlike the rare crime of rape, which only happens to women (and slutty women, who were actually asking for it, and probably secretly like it, because they are too shrewish and ugly to get sex from anyone else. I mean, shit, they ought to thank rapist, who were doing them a favor [and taking one for the team, so the uppity little skanks can run around and bitch about how evil men are]).

You want to make rape jokes, or fag jokes, or DV jokes, go ahead. I’m not going to stop you. But I might call you a douchenozzle, and make fun of you.

If you make a living telling jokes, I’ll tell people you tell bad jokes, and why. If they want to go see you, they can.

But telling me to shut up, because I don’t like your jokes… that’s whiny shit.

You’re kind of a moron, aren’t you? No, because a huge number of very funny jokes don’t require you to mock people who are downtrodden. Sarah Silverman’s entire act is constructed on mocking the powerful and dismantling -isms, for instance.

That sort of whinging just tells me you’re an unfunny bully, not that you’re concerned for comedy.

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